The Institute for Studies on Anomalous Activities of a Higher Function (ISAAHF) is a joint endeavour between elements of the Euland and Waterlund governments. Its purpose is to investigate, research, and catalogue strange and unexplained phenomena. It is divided into three primary departments: Investigations, Research, and Archives. These three departments are often internally referred to as The Finders, The Tinkers, and The Keepers.
Most of the people who know of the existence of the Institute it is believed to be some perfunctory function of bureaucracy which produces little to no value. Only a few members of either government are read in on its full function and the realities it has uncovered.
Safety protocols for both Research and Archives are colour coded. There are four colours representing different levels of danger associated with the artifact or event as well as the conditions, requirements and allowed personnel for both study and storage. The four colours are green, which is used for innocuous or otherwise harmless events and artifacts; orange, which is used for events and artifacts for which basic precautions or simple handling instructions are enough to maintain relative safety; red, is utilized when the event or artifact is sufficiently dangerous that only senior, or otherwise qualified staff are permitted to interact with them or major precautions must be taken to ensure safety. Finally, the black designation is used only for the most dangerous of events or artifacts. The designation of black is not referenced in any official documents outside of the Black Archive itself. Once an event or artifact receives the designation of black, research is only permitted to the extent that it may determine appropriate safety precautions for storage and handling. Despite the lack of external documentation, the existence of the Black Archive is not, strictly speaking, a secret. Internal discussion of the archive and its contents are permitted, but simply aren't allowed to be recorded. Internal rumours suggest that any attempt to maintain records of the Black Archive outside of the archive itself will result in those records finding a way to have themselves destroyed. Matches spontaneously lighting causing pages to burn, water spilling on a freshly inked page, a notebook slipping from from someone's hand into the river. Other rumours detail various ill fates which may befall those who created those records. In reality, one of the artifacts in the Black Archive is used to conceal its existence. The rumours surrounding what happens to those who create the records are intentionally spread by the archivists of the Black Archives to further reduce attempts to keep such records. The location of the Black Archive is not known.
The Living Archive is broadly agreed by most staff at The Institute to be a fabricated rumour. It is, however, very much real. It contains "living anomalies", kept for both research and simply for containment. Like the Black Archive, its location is unknown. The archive staff are often referred to, by those who believe in its existence, as Zoo Keepers, as a play on the "Keepers" nickname used for normal members of the Archives department.